[WEB4LIB] gifs disappearing in IE5

[glen.davies at cce.ac.nz]

Hi

Thanks. I have checked for a later driver, but even the newest driver 
for NT doesn't fix it. I have reverted back to win98 and it works fine. 
I don't think those Presarios are really cut out for running NT, not 
the model we have anyway.

Regards
Glen
On 9 Jan 01, at 15:53, Thomas Dowling wrote:

> 9 times out of 10, problems like this are due to the video driver.  I'm
> not sure why IE is so susceptible to that, but you should check you
> graphics card maker to see if they have updated drivers.
> 
> Thomas Dowling
> OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
> tdowling at ohiolink.edu
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <glen.davies at cce.ac.nz>
> To: "Multiple recipients of list" <web4lib at webjunction.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 3:48 PM
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] gifs disappearing in IE5
> 
> 
> > Hi
> >
> > I am just trying to get IE5 installed on some opac machines
> > (Compaq Presarios running NT4). It all works fine, except gif
> > images disappear when you scroll up and down a web page. The
> > gifs will reappear if you do a refresh, or will sometimes reappear if
> > you scroll up and down a few times. JPEGs are fine and stay put.
> >
> > I have tried IE5, 5.5 and 5.5 sp1 and they all have the same
> > problem. Netscape is ok on the same machines. I have also tried
> > changing display settings, number of colours, refresh rate etc.
> > I have IE5.5 on my desktop (Compaq Despro) it works fine, so I
> > suspect that it may be related to video drivers or something. I can't
> > find anything in the MS KnowledgeBase.
> >
> > Has anybody else had this problem and fixed it?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Regards
> > Glen
> >
>